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Well, thankfully I met her. Now I know how to get pretty girls to like me. Be a gym leader.

"Well that was certainly educational, now wasn't it? But you may want to not kill your Drifloon, it looks a bit distressed. A gym leader eh? Well I probably going to bump into him eventually. I am taking the Sinnoh gym challenge. Even though I skipped the Eterna gym. Stupid leader wasn't even in the gym." He grunted the last bit. Malic wasn't found of cowards. He respected most of the group as a result, but was still put off by Jay's lack of confidence. He wanted to ask blunty 'Hey! Was so scared', but held himself back. He would sound too rude for his own good.

"So Charlie. You Volkner's number one fan? You speak so highly of the man. Probably own a club and everything." Malic couldn't help but smirk by that one. Charlie almost seemed childish with her obsession. I shouldn't talk. I had a crush Jasmine and Whitney for nearly a year. At least I got over it.
 
OOC: I'm off be sure to read the OOC thread for further notice.

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Jay looked at Malic then at Charlie, then at his Pokémon. "Return." Jay said, all of his pokémon returned to their rightful pokéballs, after doing so, Jay took his time to put them in exact order just how he left them. There was one more pokémon he didn't show but he'd wait for a better time when he knew them more as this one is very personal. After Jay finished putting away his pokémon he looked at Charlie again, she too was inspired by a Gym Leader - a gym leader who she's in love with.

"I wonder... she inspired me as well but does she, does she remember me?"Jay thought to himself. He gave a soft smile, at Charlie's words and Malic's expression across his face, as if everything around him was falling down. He was about to mention something about his Glaceon, about how he got it and who gave it to him. But it didn't feel right, so instead he just let it go. Perhaps another time.

The two seemed to enjoy one another, Jay felt tension with Malic, though he never said anything wrong, something was in the air. Jay didn't want to intrude any further and simply watched and listened to their conversation, joining it as an observer much like Arlene.
 
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"Phsaw? A fan club? Thats lame. Heh," Charlie chuckled nervously, and Vulpix gave her a look. A look that said 'my trainer is the biggest loser in the world, but I'll always love her'

"I think we all had that problem with Gardenia," noted Charlie, her voice all of a sudden serious "I imagine it would be a hetic lifestyle running a gym. Nurse Joy told me that Gardenia helps a lot of Pokemon in the Forest so she's not always available. Maybe I should of stuck around," she murmured to herself. Charlie wondered if her father would be upset by her decision, and she immediately regretted her thoughts as they strayed to Russel. In an instant she felt troubled and distant to the group. She needed a hug and Vulpix sensed that, allowing her trainer to pick her up and snuggle her close.

Another one of her famous mood swings she thought, it was something Art would say, and then he would hug her or ruffle her hair. Charlie missed her best friend a lot. He was a year older than her age wise but in the grade below her in school so he was unable to accompany Charlie on her journey. She missed his auburn hair and grey eyes and his playful laugh. Charlie sighed, feeling incredibly lonely and sad. She wondered if the group noticed, she had stopped listening to them afterall.
 
Bobby watched Malic and Charlie getting along, feeling jelous that Malic was the one talking to the pretty girl. On the other hand, Bobby was happy that Malic was getting along with the others. He slid off Flygon and returned her and Heracross to their Poke Balls. He looked over at Charlie and heard explaining about Gardenia the Gym Leader from Eterna. He saw that she was looking kind of sad, like she was remembering an old friend. Realizing he hadn't introduce himslef Bobby went over to her while Totodile jumped onto his head. "Hi i'm Bobby. Is everything ok?"
 
Gah. Bobby is stealing my thunder. That was first thought zooming through Malic's head. Then he pondered for a second and another voice spoke to Malic. Bobby is trying to be nice. She is in love anyway. You have no chance. Malic then realized it was true.

Instead, he tried to break the tension that was building, but he had no idea how and looked at Jay.

"Hey dude, where are you from? Judging by your oufit, its probably pretty cold." Malic stated. He sounded a bit blunt and direct but figured its the only way to get Jay out of his little depressed and scared state. He needs to man up a bit. Malic wasn't the greatest at helping people unless it was through direct action.

While waiting for Jay's response, He stayed mildly focused on Charlie and Bobby. Malic found himself multitasking the whole and felt proud that he is actually pulling it off.
 
"I'm fine. It's nice to meet you," Charlie told Bobby shortly. She wasn't trying to be rude but she didn't particularly feel like revealing her depressing past.
Dead mother. Abandoned by her brother. Raised by her emotionally absent father.
If she had to confide in someone, it would be Arlene. But not now, not yet. Charlie pressed her pale cheek into Vulpix's luxurious brown fur. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed Drifloon drifting away, Charlie groaned inwardly and reached for his Pokeball.

"Drifloon, return!" She cried and the Pokemon became a beam of red light, sucked up into the red and white ball which she returned to her bag and then she promptly sat down. Fate crossed over to the pair, nosing his newfound friend whilst Charlie fiddled with her watch. She'd never been much of a fiddler, but she felt uncomfortable. All of a sudden Fate's stomach grumble and Charlie and Arlene erupted into giggles, Fate just grinned foolishly at them.

"It's okay buddy, I'm getting pretty hungry too," she confessed and then turned to Bobby "What about you Bobby?" Charlie asked, feeling bad for dismissing him before.
 
Charlie stated that she was fine, but Bobby knew she simply didn't want to explore that part of her past yet. 'It's cool. She probally dosen't feel comfertable right now talking about it.' Bobby thought. Then he heard the Ninetales's stomach growl. Charlie said she was also hungry and asked Bobby what aobut him. "I could go for some food." Bobby said "And I have a Pokemon to go find us some." Bobby threw out Heracross, whom he sent to go find food. Heracross came back a few minutes later, with honey, apples, and an assortment of berries. "Good job Heracross." and Bobby let Heracross have some hunny as an reward. He started putting honey on his apple, when he saw Charlie and the fox girl whose name he did not know, looking at him weird. "Oh you guy's don't put honey on your apples? Maybe it's just a Johto thing..." Bobby said discuraged.
 
Charlie shrugged at Bobby's question. She liked honey but not on her apples or any other food. She liked to dip her hand into honey pots and lick the honey off her hands like a bear would, an adorable habit she had apparently. She examined the berries, determining which were edible and which were not with the help of Arlene. Vulpix trotted across to the apples and rolled two over to Fate to share with him, the large fox Pokemon grinned at her and they began to eat. Malic and Jay were off to the side, having a forced conversation
They should of just battled, it would have subdued Garchomp at least. He'll probably rampage when Malic releases him next she thought.

Charlie rifled to her backpack and extracted the sandwiches she had bought last night, she passed them around and dug into her own sandwich eagerly. She hoped after lunch they would resume their journey and if not she would sleep, she felt emotionally drained and sleep always fixed that.

Until the dream...
 
You must become Legend, for it is your DESTINY!

Far away, on Cinnabar Island inside pokemon mansion, A young man named Yame Legend woke with a start from the floor. He looked down at himself and found he had fallen asleep early yet again from another day of hard pokemon training.
He looked up at Magmar and Electabuzz, and grinning sheepishly he said, "I'm sorry for falling asleep on you guys but you know, i think it's time i leave this island and look for my adventure."
Magmar and electabuzz nodded in agreement, and Yame Legend went out the secret back door and headed for the coast. Once there, he whistled three different pitches, and a Gigantic Wailord surfaced.
"Come on Kaktala, let's go!"
Yame jumped on Kaktala's back, and got comfortable for the ride ahead. He knew Kaktala would take him wherever Kaktala wanted to go, so Yame soon drifted off to a peaceful sleep.

5:10 A.M.

Yame awoke again, checked his watch, and swore until he realized that Kaktala had stopped.
"What the-" he half asked until he saw the problem.
Someone was blocking kaktala's way, and the great pokemon was waiting politely for the person to move, but she would not.
when the woman saw Yame stir, she called out, "Lets battle, i've been itchin' for a fight!"
Yame, angry that she blocked his beloved Kaktala's way, looked her over. She didn't seem very tough.
"Whatever, it's your loss lady" he said, bored.
"Go, staryu!", she screamed.
"Come on, electabuzz.", he drawled, even more bored.
"Use water gun!"
"Are you kidding? or not? ha ha!" Yame laughed and told elactabuzz to use thunder.
It struck staryu so hard that staryu convulsed for a second. As staryu knocked out, the woman screamed,"NO!"
as Yame looked upon calmly. Yame then said, "Get better next time you challenge someone, becuase i hate waking up early to fight weaklings."
And with that, Wailord drifted past, leaving the woman crying, and Yame did not look back, but instead drifted back into a peaceful sleep.
 
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As soon as Arlene and Charlie had picked out good berries from bad, the vixen turned to Snake and Jaydin, who were talking about... Something. Even Arlene's own superior canine sense of hearing did little to penetrate the invisible blanket that separated them, but it was probably nothing too important anyway. "Hey SNAKE! JAYDIN!" she called, raising a fistful of berries in the air for them to see, "FOOD! ORANS AND SITRUSES!"

Snake held up her ready paws for her trainer to throw berries to her, which Arlene did with expert accuracy. Every single berry landed at it's mark, and as soon as the last berry was transferred, Snake gave half of them to Jaydin and the two began to feast. Arlene then paid them no further mind and turned on the last crimson-colored apple that the new Bobby's Heracross had retreived. She tossed it up a few feet in the air and caught it, feeling it's heft. A very ripe, fresh apple that she had not seen the likes of for a long time, judging by the weight of the fruit.

The vixen took a swift bite out of the apple she had claimed, using her wide canine tongue to carefully prevent any fruit juices from spilling out of the corners of her mouth; after swallowing, she turned to face Bobby. "Oh, you guys don't put honey on your apples? Must be a Johto thing then..." he stated rhetorically.

"Not so much, it's just that honey and fur don't go too well together, if you get my drift," Arlene responded quite plainly, sticking out her tongue jokingly at the human boy. There was naught but silence on either end, until Charlie passed out sandwiches. Arlene really wanted to ask why the human girl hadn't passed them around prior, but it was all too good ends anyway. Arlene carefully packed the sandwich in the main section of her backpack, with her leftovers from last night, and decided that maybe it was time for a little break.

The vixen toppled over on her back - intentionally - and stretched out every part of her body, looking up at the sky... The day had been unusually peaceful so far. She also recognized that Jay and Malic were engaged in hushed, forced conversation, but paid it no mind - they did not concern her for the time being. She looked over at her new and closest friend in the Sinnoh region, Charlie, and spoke. "Hey Charlie, I have a question... A somewhat odd question, I'll admit. Would you think any differently of me if I had to be a thief to get the things I need, because of human prejudice against my kind? More importantly, do you think any less of me for being a walking, talking fox?"

A strange question, indeed! But Arlene had decided finally some time ago that it was important to be open about that end of her lifestyle; it was entirely true that she was a thief due to many shopkeepers refusing her service outright, but it was also true that she never took anything without leaving the appropriate amount of money in place of the item.
 
After devouring her sandwich Charlie laid back onto the soft grass, yawning and wrinkling her nose. Vulpix left Fate's side after daintily eating her apple and curled up on Charlies stomach, promptly falling asleep. Charlie watched Jay and Malic out of the corner of her eye, they were both really cute. Jay was so lost and confused, but he was so not interested in her and Malic was maybe a little egotistical. But did he have reason to be? she mused.

All of a sudden, Arlene asked her a question. It was an intense one that made her think, drawing her thoughts away from the boys. She propped up on one elbow, careful not to disturb her Vulpix, facing her friend so she could read her expression.

"Well firstly, no, to your second question. I don't think less of you at all, I've never been one to judge people for what they are, I believe that what you are doesn't make you who you are. You could be part fox, part person, part mutant Zombie and I would not treat you differently," she smiled and then joked "Unless you tried to eat my brains." The pair laughed and Charlie paused before continuing
"I don't know about the first question, however. I don't think its just that you should be discriminated against at all, but I think you always will be. I could not imagine to be so ostracized for just being who I am, and I think that if humans are denying you of your basic human needs and you have no other way to obtain them, then no. I don't think that would make me think less of you at all."

All in all Charlie was proud of what she had said, her father always claimed she had been a natural politician which she resented, but she hoped that Arlene would be pleased with her reply. She was fairly certain that Arlene had already resorted to thievery, but like she had said. It did not make her like or respect Arlene any less. Bobby was off to the side with his Pokemon, Charlie wondered if he had been listening. He hadn't been polite to Arlene at all, neither of them had except maybe Jay, this made Charlie angry, this was a direct example of prejudice that Arlene had mentioned. They flat out ignored the gorgeous woman and instead stared openly at Charlie, fighting for her attention. Not that she minded the boys googly eyed looks, which she was used to, she still wished that they would treat her friend better. A lot better
 
Bobby guiltily listened in on the girls conversation. "Maybe I have been a little mean..." Bobby said. While he loved to make friends, he was put off by Arlene's costume thing. Sighing Bobby went over to Arlene. "Um Arlene?" He said tentivly. It wasn't like him to be nervous, "I uh guess I haven't been very nice to you and um I really am sorry for ignoring you. Can you forgive me?"
 
Arlene paused for a moment, taking in all that Charlie had given her to digest... The vixen smiled, her lips wide with the pleasing sensation of having someone around who cared about you. Deep inside a world where she could not escape those haunting words that plagued her every day... "We don't serve your kind here"... "Humans only, get out"... So many millions of different ways to put her down had she absorbed, that her sense of right and wrong had become very relative.

It was wonderful to know that Charlie thought she was worthy of her time. Over the last day they'd spent just talking together, it seemed that part of her mind had been erased, a part that still clung to memories of the prejudice she'd encountered. She looked directly at her new friend, and responded finally. "Thank you Charlie... Thank you so much," she said, grateful.

Then, after a moment of silence, Arlene reached into her backpack, searching for a precious item... She pulled out a thick spiral-bound notebook, on which she had scrawled "MUSIC" in permanent marker. She flipped open the cover and spilled over at least fifty-to-sixty pages of musical staffs, lyrics, and chord charts, until finally she encountered a blank page. She extracted a pen from within the book's binding, and immediately got to work constructing a new musical staff, with the G clef wrapped around the second line from the bottom. On the top she scribbled DGCFAD to signify a guitar tuned down a whole step, then came the notes themselves, which seemed to flow smoothly out of her paw onto paper.

On the bottom of the page, Arlene quickly scribbled out the word "Complete".

When Bobby decided to show himself to Arlene directly, she looked up at him curiously for a moment, as if considering whether or not to reject his offer, and finally she spoke up, "Of course I can, silly!" in a friendly tone, offering him a smile. She couldn't possibly hold a grudge against anyone or anything... Even the humans that had shunned her and deprived her of everything still had some place in her heart.
 
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Charlie blushed slightly and nodded at Arlene

"No worries, my friend." Charlie had never had many female friends, most of the girls her age ignored her because she had grown up as a tomboy and the few childhood female friends were girls from ballet. When she was skipped ahead two grades she met older and more mature girls and got along with them better. They shopped and giggled and gossiped together but it was never more than that, she never confided or connected with them. Losing her mother and made it hard for her to want to be close to females, and she'd turned to Art instead, telling him anything and everything that popped into her mind.

But Arlene was different, Charlie trusted her and she didn't know why. She felt she had suffered in her past like Charlie had, and would understand her pain better than anyone here. She watched her friend reach for a notebook and her curiosity was prickled, poetry? Lyrics? Love letters? She wondered, maybe Charlie would ask her later.

Charlie listened to the exchange between Bobby and Arlene and was proud, not just of Bobby but of Arlene. She didn't know if she could forgive someone so readily the way Arlene just had, maybe she was so used to people judging her that it barely bothered her anymore and this thought made Charlie sad.

"We should probably get moving if we're ever going to get to Celestic Town," she said to no one in particular "After all I have a gym leader to woo"
 
Arlene closed her book suddenly and stuffed it away in her backpack, content with her writing. She then looked over to her friend and nodded. "Yeah, we need to get moving very shortly. Mount Coronet is ahead, right?" the fox noted and asked, as she had no map to check for herself. When Charlie nodded as her response, the vixen continued, "I recommend we form a small exploration party and stick together."

It was not necessarily for the group's entire safety, but for the fact that they could combat anyone looking for a fistfight much more easily in larger numbers. ...And Arlene had something of a gut feeling that whoever had taken her possessions would be looking to defend his bounty should he be caught in the act.

"We should also probably get the hell out of that mountain by nightfall, if possible. But... I dunno how feasable that is."
 
Charlie nodded in agreeance with Arlene,

"If we leave now, and don't stop until we leave the caves we might get to Route 211 by midnight," she said, consulting her map and using her mathematics knowledge to estimate their arrival time.
"C'mon guys," she shouted to Jay and Malic "We're heading off now, but we won't make it to Celestic Town 'til at least tomorow 'cause you've been having some tea party"

The boys turned to look at her, Malic laughed at her joke and Jay looked confused, nothing new there, poor guy thought Charlie. Jay seemed eager at the idea of Celestic Town, but nervous at the thought of the caves, especially the caves at night. I'm not to keen on the idea either Charlie admitted to herself, Mt Coronet wasn't exactly the most inviting place.

The group began packing their bags and started heading off, but Jay remained behind, as if deep in thought, Charlie rolled her eyes and pulled a face at Arlene who laughed,
"C'mon Jay," she said approaching him, grabbing his hand and dragging him along forcefully. Vulpix was nipping playfully at his heels and then crossed over to follow Fate, whom she was captivated by.

So, after a few setbacks and introductions the group was off on their journey, first stop Route 11.
 
Jake found himself, yet again, standing around awkwardly while everyone else talked. He called his Weavile back down from the tree it was in, then occupied himself by flipping one of his badges like a coin. Though it obviously wasn't polite to eavesdrop, he had nothing else to do if his Absol wasn't going to let him leave. He sat down, bored, while trying to keep his Pokemon from getting too edgy; they had been anticipating a fight since they saw Malic's Garchomp.

He was catching the names of several Gym Leaders scattered throughout the conversations. Though he wasn't one to idolize someone, he couldn't help but think of Wallace, his teacher back home in Sootopolis City. Well, probably not there anymore, since Juan took over the Gym.

Alert again, he noticed his Houndoom looking jealously at a Vulpix and a Ninetales. He chuckled softly and pet the canine Pokemon. He knew it envied close friendships between other Pokemon; it never seemed to get along with Jake's other Pokemon, though it was closely bonded with its Trainer. Bored, Jake continued to flip the badge with his thumb.
 
Whilst they were walking Charlie noticed Jake's beautiful yet intimidating Houndoom looking over at Vulpix and Fate with mournful eyes, she wondered why Vulpix hadn't approached the dark Pokemon earlier probably because he and his trainer hadn't exactly given a friendly vibe she mused. Though, it was still weird, Vulpix was the epitome of friendliness and was the most affectionate creature she had ever met. Charlie felt sorry for the impressive hound like Pokemon so she beckoned Vulpix to return to her side.

Vulpix obliged and Charlie knelt down momentarily, whispering in her ear. The little fox Pokemon looked wary, but listened to her trainer and then did as instructed. She trotted jauntily to the Houndoom's side and butted noses with it, sniffing him. Charlie held her breath, Jake wasn't exactly her favourite person and she didn't know if he would stop Houndoom from attacking her Pokemon.

Arlene and Charlie looked on together, waiting for Houndoom's reaction. Arlene looked at Charlie as if to say If anything happens, Fate will jump in
 
Bobby noticed Jake flipping a Gym Badge. Wow the only gym badge I have is the one from Jasmine. As soon as he thought of Jasmine, he got nostalgic. I wonder how she's doin? he thought. He saw Charlie's Vulpix wander over to Jake's Houndoom. Worried he told Totodile to be ready, but there didn't seem to be a problem between the Pokemon. The trainer on the other hand, Bobby couldn't get a read on.

Bobby pulled down his goggles to see how far the mountain was and was surprised to see it very close. His stomach started to clench as his Claustrophobia kicked in as he thought of going into a closed in cave. "It's gonna be ok! You have people with you this time..." He absent-mindly started scratching his hand, which was his comfort technick.
 
"Why do I get the feeling this will not end well at all? If the pokemon are anything like him, something will be either scared or on the floor writhing in pain." Malic honsetly hoped nothing would happen and everything would all happy and peaceful.

Just in case. I'll get Garchomp ready. Malic knew Garchomp's little time out would calm him down and he sensed that Garchomp would exercise extreme caution in the situation. Malic also went through a series of battle scenarios in his head. While he wasn't the smartest individual when it came to pure book smarts, Malic was an excellent tactician.

He figured that Jake was experienced and knew full well the limitations of his solo type party and allotted for that in his calculations, hence his choice of Garchomp whose raw power would hopefully end the fight in a few moments.

Malic placed his hand on the pokeball containing Garchomp but was careful to not drawn attention. He was slow and careful, he did not want to battle at the moment but remained ready.
 
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